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No matter what your age, you can increase the size of your brain or boost your processing power with a few lifestyle changes. If you want to have better cognitive thinking, consider working out. Since you’re already reading this blog, I presume you already are going to my gym in Etobicoke, Ontario, so good for […]

If you’ve been bed ridden for a while, had a heart attack or any long term major condition, you need to combat the toll it has taken on your body and fight back. It’s tough getting back to exercise after a major health issue, but that’s exactly when you need to do it, with your […]

There’s a lot to be said for modern health care. Pain killers are wonderful for coping with injuries and modern surgery has come a long way in relieving many chronic problems. But what if you could prevent the problem or even cure it with something you can do at home and the only side effects […]

If you’ve been working our regularly, but included new exercises into your normal workout and find you suddenly have pain a day or two after the workout, you may have delayed onset muscle soreness—DOMS. During workouts, your muscles contract, they shorten or lengthen when the muscle is producing force. Each phase has a name. When […]

Exercise Is Medicine (EIM) is a global movement that the president of the American College of Sports Medicine—ACSM—initiated. It’s an effort to improve the knowledge of doctors to the benefits of exercise and urges physicians to assess each patient level of physical activity and even use exercise as one of the prescriptions. When doctors find […]

No matter what you decide to do in life, your success or failure is based on your mindset. If you believe you’ll achieve something, you will. If you believe you won’t achieve something, the chances are that you’ll be right, too. While some people object, saying that they really believed that they’d achieve their goals, […]

If you’ve always been fit, you’ll be a more likely candidate for a swift recovery after a surgery or serious condition. But there are pitfalls you have to avoid and a process to follow when returning to fitness after surgery. To muddy the waters even more, one study used a questionnaire to discover surgeon’s and […]

Cross training offers a plethora of benefits, but even with that said, not everyone does it. Before you know whether cross training is something you should include in your workout program, you need to identify exactly what cross training is. If you’re a runner, you might cross train by taking up boxing or martial arts. […]

If your date nights are becoming the same old thing, dinner, drinks and a movie, you might be ready for a change. You can create a healthy date night to make a change and get fitter in the process. The date night might involve an earlier trip to the store to get the makings for […]

If you’re ready for something different to help get or keep in shape and lose weight, it’s time to try boxing as a workout. Boxing provides a total body workout that will leave you tired, but feeling great. Training for a match requires you to punch a heavy bag, with professional ones weighing 100 pounds […]